prosperous age

Chapter 168 Chapter 167

Today, up to now, Wei Guangde is very satisfied, he has been on the top list, and when he passes the palace examination, he can proudly say to others that he is a "two list Jinshi".

Not only Wei Guangde, but also the shopkeeper of the Jiujiang Guild Hall and the Jiujiang businessmen who came here to do business in Beijing were also very happy, and finally they didn't come to sit for a long time in vain.

However, there are also many people who are very unhappy.

They, of course, are the other 20 or so applicants rushing for the exam.

However, at this time, they could only forcefully smile.

Well, it's still early now, there are [-] tribute quotas, and only about [-] people have registered now, maybe I still have some.
While all the candidates were still looking forward to it, Wei Guangde, Zhang Ke and Xia Kefan were already sitting together, discussing the matter of going to the Beijing Tribute Academy to read the rankings together tomorrow morning, to see who they were in the same year.

For the Gongsheng students from Jiangxi, they are quite familiar. The combination of the three of them is very interesting. It includes three consecutive provincial examinations in the 28th, 31st and 34th years of Jiajing. There should be a chance to get to know each other.

Of course, their goal is not only to get to know the Gongsheng students in this province, but also to get to know the outstanding talents from other provinces by the way. In the future, as the same year, they must support and take care of each other in the officialdom, so that they can go further.

The so-called one hero has three gangs, especially in officialdom.

Everyone has formed small interest groups in the form of the same year and fellow countrymen, looking forward to better development.

For the people in the Jiujiang Guild Hall, the next time will be even more tormenting.

As time passed quietly, everyone knew that their chances of being on the list were disappearing.

The higher you go, the higher your ranking will be. Do you have this level?
Now, except for Lao Kan and Shen Liangdong, they all had the experience of failing the general examination. Naturally, the arrogance that arose after passing the provincial examination had long since disappeared, and the seeds of doubt had been planted in their hearts.

At this moment, the seed sprouts.

In fact, for many talented people, this is the so-called "inner demon". If you can't see through this point, the imperial examination will almost come to an end in the future.

There are only a very small number of them, perhaps by luck and coincidence, who can pass this most difficult hurdle.

I don't know how many teams have passed to announce the good news. Counting the time, I am afraid that less than a hundred people have already registered.

Disappointment gradually spread in the hearts of all the candidates.

In the distance, another group of festive music sounded, and then gradually disappeared.

In fact, at this moment, Wei Guangde was a little confused about the situation.

For example, Lao Kan, whose talent far exceeds his own, but what happened?

He was on the first list, but Lao Kan seemed to have failed the list. Although there is still a chance now, Wei Guangde also feels that the chance is slim.

Xia Kefan's talent is not below that of Lao Kan, but he only got into the rank of more than 200. How can Lao Kan be able to kill him to be less than [-]?
That is an existence with a high probability of becoming a top two.

In the distance, there was another sound of gongs, drums and suona, and the sound gradually became louder and louder.

Everyone turned their expectant eyes to the gate, hoping that the team of announcers could step over the threshold and enter here.

However, when the drum music sounded in everyone's ears, and when Baozi really stepped into the Jiujiang Guild Hall, everyone was still excited.

Wei Guangde looked at those candidates with fire-breathing eyes, and also guessed who would be on the list this time.

They didn't make them wait for too long, perhaps because they saw the eagerness of the candidates, the reporter quickly opened the good news in his hand, and read aloud with excitement: "Jiajing's 35th Bingchen Branch Examination. Congratulations to Jiangxi De Mr. Lao Kanlao of Hua County was ranked [-]th in the first list, and the Beijing News was listed as the yellow first."

Lawrence made the list.

Eighty, there is really a chance to enter the second class.

At this moment, the businessmen who had already stood up excitedly at the two tables applauded loudly, and at the same time flocked to Lao Kan's table without slowing down.

Originally, Wei Guangde was at the same table as Lao Kan and the others, but after knowing that Zhang Ke and Xia Kefan were on the list, the three of them sat at a small table next to them and chatted. Yuan will be awarded to which province.

Here, Wei Guangde naturally has no right to speak, and it is Xia Kefan and Zhang Ke who are discussing.

Now, Wei Guangde's three tributes are still outside, and Lao Kan's side is already crowded with those merchants, and the Ju people can only stand outside and keep bowing to Lao Kan inside, shouting loudly, " Congratulations".

Wei Guangde looked at those merchants, and they complimented Lao Kan with brighter smiles than before.

Of course, the ranking in the general examination is not as good as the ranking in the palace examination, but the gap between the two is not too big.

Basically, Lao Kan has been determined to enter the second class.

When everyone in the Jiujiang Guild Hall rejoiced that Lao Kan had entered the top [-] in the examination, to the north of them, in the inner city of Beijing, Yongshou Palace.

"Your Majesty, Wei Guangde is only at the bottom of the examination list."

In the main hall, an old eunuch is respectfully reporting in a low voice to Emperor Jiajing who is sitting on the throne.

At this time, Emperor Jiajing was just lazily lying on the chair, with a Taoist bun on his head, a golden hairpin crossed across it, and wearing a blue-gray Taoist robe, looking very leisurely.

"Chen Hong, you reported that that kid killed a pirate on the battlefield?"

Emperor Jiajing waved his sleeves, found a more comfortable position and continued to ask.

"That's what it said in the battle report. The servants have checked with someone, and it seems that there is indeed such a thing."

That old eunuch was Chen Hong, the great eunuch who went to Nanjing to preach the decree. After knowing that the Japanese pirates had been wiped out, he took away all the battle reports, and at the same time arranged for the people mentioned in the battle reports to carry out a war against the Jinyiwei in Jiangxi. The purpose of the detailed investigation is to be able to make it clear when the emperor asks. Emperor Jiajing paid great attention to these details.

"A scholar, go to learn how to fight the enemy."

Emperor Jiajing said with a playful smile on the corner of his mouth.

"Thinking about it, that Wei Guangde was from a military family after all, maybe he has this preference because of what he has heard and seen."

Speaking of this, Chen Hong looked up at the Emperor Jiajing above, showing no expression, and then continued: "Earlier, Jiujiang reported that this Wei Guangde and Zhang Hongfu, who advocated attacking Japanese pirates this time, often go out on horseback on weekdays. Immediately the kung fu is pretty good.

On weekdays, Wei Guangde would get up to punch in the morning at home, which is the way of the army, and so is Zhang Hongfu.

After all, he is going to take up his post. According to the rules of the Ministry of War, if he wants to take up the post of commander, his skill should not be too ugly. "

"I will try, who is his room teacher?"

Emperor Jiajing just smiled casually when he heard the words, but continued to ask.

"It was ordered by Kang Siqian, the editor of the Imperial Academy. I don't know the specific situation. After all, it is the Gongyuan. Maybe Commander Lu knows better."

Chen Hong lowered his head and replied.

"Kang Siqian is from Shanxi, right?"

Emperor Jiajing frowned slightly, and asked after a little thought.

"Yes, he is from Linfen, Shanxi Province. He is the same year as Li Chunfang and Mr. Li. He was the biography of that year."

Every time Chen Hong met Emperor Jiajing, he would try his best to do his homework well. He didn't want to give the emperor a confused impression that he didn't know anything when asked.

"Go down and pay more attention to those few."

After a long while, Emperor Jiajing asked him to go out.

After receiving the order, Chen Hong immediately bowed and slowly exited the hall.

"Huang Jin, what do you think of this Wei Guangde, a tribute, who can go into battle and kill the enemy."

After Chen Hong left, Emperor Jiajing suddenly asked Huang Jin, the eunuch serving beside him.

"The slave is not from a military family, so I don't know how the military family's inheritance is, but I heard that the general family will have some skills to pass on, so you should be able to kill the enemy more or less in battle. That bit of courage. It must have been inherited by the elders, after all, their family is hereditary, and they will definitely not get it without military merit.

But for readers, more energy should be put on books. "

Huang Jin didn't know the attitude of the master he was following, so he could only say what he knew, and he couldn't say he was good or bad, it was just ambiguous.

"Ha ha."

Jiajing let out a burst of laughter, but still couldn't tell what kind of mood he was in at the moment.

Huang Jin couldn't figure out Emperor Jiajing's psychology, but after pondering for a moment, he smiled flatteringly and said, "Speaking of which, the guard system established by our ancestors is quite good, and there can still be some talents in the guard."

"More food buckets."

Emperor Jiajing sneered, not knowing who he was thinking of.

Wei Guangde was on the top list, he was so excited that he didn't sleep well all night, and he woke up the next day with great energy, and followed Lao Kan, Xia Kefan and the others to Beijing Gongyuan to watch the list.

A group of people took Wei Guangde's carriage and entered the inner city directly from Chongwenmen, and turned right into Gongyuan Street after a short distance.

Beijing Gongyuan is located in the southeast corner of the inner city, close to the city wall, and the carriage arrived here not long after.

Although yesterday's newspapers shuttled back and forth in the city of Beijing and passed the news of the exam list to the candidates on the list, there are still some unwilling candidates who come to look at the apricot list again, trying to find His own name, so when we got here, what Wei Guangde and the others saw was crowds of people.

It was so easy to get to the bottom of the list. Although Wei Guangde and the others already knew the ranking, they still chose to take a second look to confirm it, even though they all knew that the probability of making mistakes was very small.

Soon, Wei Guangde saw his name in the 271st position, and it was indeed on the list.

Seeing the name, Wei Guangde's heart completely settled down.

When they came, they had already ordered the shopkeeper of the guild hall, if there was a happy news from the Gongyuan after they left, they would ask them to accept it for them and reward them with happy money.

At this moment, Wei Guangde, who was relaxed all over, simply looked forward from the end to see who he was in the same age, maybe there were people he knew among them.

Soon he noticed the names of several candidates from Jiangxi, Zou Shan and Yang Biao, who were all selected last year, so Wei Guangde naturally knew them.

As we continued to look forward, we went to look for Lao Kan by the way. At this moment, there were only Xia Kefan and Zhang Ke beside him, because everyone was at the bottom of the list, but they were all on the list anyway.

At this moment, in their hearts, the ranking is really not important, the important thing is to be on the list.

While looking at it, you move forward. If you take two steps, you will inevitably collide with someone. There is no way to do it. There are crowds of people at the bottom of the list. Everyone still doesn't look at the road, but looks at the list.

Wei Guangde didn't even care about bumping into a few people, and continued to look forward.

"Guangde, you also come to see the list."

While looking at the list, Wei Guangde heard someone calling his name.

Wei Guangde withdrew his gaze and looked over, and hurriedly cupped his hands and said, "Brother Zeng also came to see the list."

"Yeah, come and have a look, and feel at ease."

The person who came was Zeng Xingwu, and there were two people beside him.

This is just the meaning revealed by Zeng Xingwu's words, Wei Guangde is still not sure for a while, whether he is on the list or not.

"Brother Zeng is on the list?"

Wei Guangde asked tentatively.

"The three provinces are the 170th in this science examination."

Before Zeng Xingwu could speak, someone beside him spoke first.

"Congratulations, Brother Zeng, well, the Beijing News has won the yellow armor."

Wei Guangde suddenly remembered the sentence he heard the most yesterday, and immediately learned it and put it into practice.

"Same joy, same joy, how is Wei Xiandi?"

Zeng Xingwu asked very implicitly, but the meaning was very clear. He wanted to know if Wei Guangde was on the list.

"My ranking is one hundred higher than Brother Zeng's."

Wei Guangde joked that since they are all on the list, they are not so polite.

Maybe other people think that Zeng Xingwu is ranked high, and it seems that they should be more respectful, but Wei Guangde knows that Zeng Xingwu doesn't care about so many formalities.

Hearing Wei Guangde's words, it was obvious that he was also on the yellow list of the meeting, not only Zeng Xingwu, but even the two people behind him were slightly taken aback, they really looked at Wei Guangde's face too young.

"Wei Xiandi is seventy?"

Zeng Xingwu obviously looked at it from the front, but he didn't understand what Wei Guangde meant for a while, thinking that Wei Guangde's ranking was a hundred places higher than his, but he didn't seem to see Wei Guangde's name in front of him.

"I am number 271."

Wei Guangde said honestly.

"Ah, huh, huh. It's amazing. Brother Xian is only 17 years old. This is the same age as us."

For this group of people, most of them are in their 20s or 30s, and suddenly a teenager comes in, well, maybe it's a little unaccustomed.

Then, Wei Guangde introduced Xia Kefan and Zhang Ke to Zeng Xingwu, and also said Zeng Xingwu's origin. His hometown is Pengze, Jiangxi, but he is from Huguang Chengtian. Afterwards, Zeng Xingwu also introduced his companions.

"Brother Zeng came from the front, who will be the judge this time?"

Zhang Ke suddenly asked.

Well, this is also the main purpose of their coming, to know where the Hui Yuan falls, you know, this is the preparation for the champion.

"You should know him, it's Jinda."

Zeng Xingwu replied directly.

"Ah, Kinda."

When Wei Guangde and the others heard that Jin Da had won Huiyuan, they didn't know what to say for a moment.

They naturally know this person, but they are not familiar with him.

Jin Da was a Juren in the 25th year of Jiajing. It is said that his ranking is very high, and he almost got rid of Yuan, but this person is a bit stubborn.

Knowing this, the main reason is that at the banquet on the 29th of the twelfth lunar month, everyone was very respectful to the Yan family father and son, not flattery, at least they were polite enough.

Wei Guangde naturally wanted to go up to curry favor, but he was concerned about the future, so he hesitated and chose to give up.

Even if you want to curry favor, it's definitely not doing this in public, let's talk about it in private.

But it was this Jinda who didn't give the Yan family father and son a good look at all, and he didn't know what was wrong.

Fellow countryman, it is also about solar terms, so you should give yourself enough face no matter what.

Wei Guangde seemed to have a premonition that Jin Da, the champion, might fly away.

(End of this chapter)